Our school has not had a facelift in several years. One of the focuses for the new administration was to budget for this process including frest paint, cultural pieces (like crests for our school's villiage system), and public data walls on actual bulletin boards (rather than taping things to the walls).  I contributed to this part of our School Improvement Plan by designing the crests and ensuring that they were printed and installed under budget. I was able to come in $300 under budget allowing that money to be moved towards the purchase of IXL for our interventionists. I have also worked towards the development and implementation of an inventory systems for textbooks and supplies preventing the need to constantly repurchase lost materials. 

During one of our courses, we were tasked with an exploration of the budgeting process for a district. My group and I chose Wilson County. Through interviews, analysis of budgeting documents, board meetings, County Commission Meetings, and exploration of the interaction between the County Commission and the School board we were able to gain meaningful insight to the processes of bugeting at different levels.

In working on staffing and budgeting concerns during the school budgeting meetings and SIP efforts, we were able to address a significant teacher concern of lacking time by rearranging our interventionist schedule to allow for one individual's scheduled to take over the progress monitoring and data collection for the school. We needed to work very diligently to get the funding arranged and the individual trained, but it was a huge success, as we discovered through our panorama surveys and faculty and staff attendance and culture data.